• Nutrition · Feb 2011

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    Nutritional support in head injury.

    • Angela Vizzini and Jaime Aranda-Michel.
    • Division of Dietetics, Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, Florida, USA.
    • Nutrition. 2011 Feb 1; 27 (2): 129-32.

    AbstractNutritional support is imperative to the recovery of head-injury patients. Hypermetabolism and hypercatabolism place this patient population at increased risk for weight loss, muscle wasting, and malnutrition. Nutrition management may be further complicated by alterations in gastrointestinal motility. Resting energy expenditure should be measured using indirect calorimetry and protein status measured using urine urea nitrogen. Providing early enteral nutrition within 72 hours of injury may decrease infection rates and overall complications. Establishing standards of practice and nutrition protocols will assure patients receive optimal nutrition assessment and intervention in a timely manner.Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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